1The Legend of Zelda
Incarnations of Destiny
Grass Children
Chapter 3: Memories of the Past
As the group jumps of the ledge leading to the Lost Forest, Scorch says, "You know. This is just like the stories of the legends of old." The others look at Scorch like he's crazy. "Oh come on. You mean to tell me that you've never heard of the ancient legends." Everybody else shakes their heads in unison. "Great. Just great. I have a bunch of ignorant fools to deal with. Ok. Every legend starts out with a small quest to figure something out, usually it's a search to figure out what's wrong. From there everything goes downhill. The so called hero of every legend is the same person. It's very weird. At times he's younger or older than when he was last seen. Nobody even know what his name was. It's been so long that even if someone knew, they'd be dead. Most say the last time the hero saved the world was over a thousand years ago. I wonder if one of you could end up being this hero. Blaze Saria, you both have a good chance at being this hero."
"Hey, want about Link?" Saria and Blaze ask simultaneously.
"Link?" Scorch contemplates, before breaking out into laughter. "You have to be kidding me. Link is such a weakling. Look at him. No muscle at all. Everybody knows that Link is only strong because he uses that out-of-date weapon. Lets go before we forget what we're going to the Great Deku Tree for."
Everyone agrees, and they walk into the Lost Woods. Link's ears perk up as he hears a strange rhythmic noise. "Do you guys hear anything?" He asks. Blaze and Scorch look at him like he's out of his mind.
"Yeah, I hear that song," Saria says. " It sounds so familiar." Navi and Tricken nod in acknowledgment. "What do you think about it, Blaze?"
"What are you guys talking about?" Blaze asks. "I don't hear anything. Only the trees shifting in the wind."
"Hmm. I wonder," Link starts to think out loud. "Senes...I mean Dark Link said we are incarnations, yet you said that you're the only Blaze ever. Maybe that has something to do with the song. It's something from our past that's seeping out because of the Woods. At least that's the best I can come up with."
"That sounds pretty good to me," Saria comments. "I was thinking the same thing. I wonder. Blaze, how do you know that you're the only Blaze ever?"
"I just do ok," Blaze says in a very hateful tone.
"Hey don't yell at Saria like that!" Link yells "What did she ever do to you? What's up with you? You've never acted this way before."
"It's nothing. Sorry Saria," Blaze apologizes. "I just don't want to talk about it Ok?"
"It's ok, really," Saria says. "Lets go. Wait which way is which? It's been too long since I've seen the Great Deku Tree."
Link looks at the fairies and smiles. "What are you thinking about, Link?" Navi asks with fear in her voice.
"Three fairies and three new paths," Link says.
"Ok I get you," Saria says. "We send a fairy in each direction and the fairy that doesn't return here is on the right path. We get the easy job, while our fairies have to remember which way we took."
"And since fairies can fly," Blaze pipes in. "They don't have to worry about the cliffs in the wrong directions. It's perfect. Link you are a genius."
"Well he is my human," Navi comments. "What do you expect?"
"Ok lets go," Everyone in the group says. After the fifteenth path the three fairies start to take longer and longer. Once when Scorch took the right path, he came back to make sure that there wasn't a battle going on. Saria writes down a path guide when they finish.
"Well that took a little longer than I thought," Blaze complains. "Ok lets get to the Great Deku SHRUBS!" A group of twelve deku shrubs jumps out of the grass.
"It's not him. I can see Navi," Link explains. "We can do this."
Suddenly, a giant deku shrub jumps right behind the normal ones. He's holding familiar looking blonde girl in his snout.
"CHARISHA!" Blaze yells. "Guys he has Torze! I'm gonna kill you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Blaze's anger reaches the breaking point. His mind becomes open to everything around him. Time has slowed down for Blaze as he jumps into the air and slams his fist into the ground, sending black flames at all of the deku shrubs except the giant one. Blaze summons his dual sided Scythe. "Take this!" Blaze says as he jumps into the air again, landing behind his overgrown adversary. As his enemy turns around, Blaze charges and slices at the deku shrub's hide.
Link runs over and takes Charisha out of the shrub's mouth. "It's ok. Navi, find Heema." Navi salutes and leaves to search for Charisha's fairy. Link looks at the shrub as it falls to the ground. In his mind, Link sees something similar to this happening. A pair of giant deku shrubs block his path. Link sees Saria and someone who looks familiar take down one of the shrubs, and he sees himself take out the other one. His other self looks as though he just saw something as strange as he's seeing right now. As the both of the shrubs fall, Link goes back to his own time and place.
Blaze and Saria go to Link and Torze. "Are you ok?" Blaze asks Torze.
"Yeah I'm fine," Torze responds. "I was going through the ledgeways and this huge deku shrub sucked me up into his mouth. Then I passed out. I woke up in time to see Link in a daze. What was that all about?"
"I don't know," Link replies as he shakes his head. "We're going to the great deku tree to figure that out. Too much has gone on for this to be normal. I think Scorch may be right. A new legend might be forming. I saw some things that might be memories of myself. It was weird. Lets go.
The group walks up to the great deku tree who says, "Hello children. How may I help you?"